Tuesday, June 12, 2012

THE PAJAMA PARTY

They certainly weren't your typical "bevy of beauties."

A group of women who worked at Swartzchild & Company, a jewelry supply company in downtown Chicago, decided to get together and have a pajama party. Rosetta is the one dead center in the third row. This photo was probably taken around 1927 when she was eighteen years old.

Rosetta's comment: "We all held our breath while the photographer got everything ready and prayed the bed wouldn't break!"

If some of the ladies look a little stoned, it's because without Photoshop or digital cameras back in those times, if the photo came out with some eyes closed, the photographer simply painted the eyes onto the eyelids.

Years later, this photo hung on her daughter Phyllice's wall, and Phyllice looks quite a bit like Rosetta. One of her friends squinted at the image and said, "Phyllice, when were you working in a cat house?"

Rosetta lived for laughter and shared it in her memoir. Since recently being published, thousands of Kindle copies of Rosetta's heartwarming, funny book, CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO? have been downloaded . It is also available in paperback and makes a wonderful gift.

She passed on in 2006 nearing her 97th birthday, but her humor lives on.

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Rosetta the Dancing Queen

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Now available in Kindle and Paperback

ABOUT ROSETTA

Born in 1909, Rosetta was the youngest of ten children in a zany immigrant family. She talks about growing up in the early 1900s when cars were still being developed, very few people had telephones or radios and getting an education beyond grammar school was a privilege for children in families of modest means.

Laughter was Rosetta's companion throughout her long llife--nearly 97 years, and she had the ability to inspire others to achieve beyond what they thought possible.

Her handwritten memoir was turned into "Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?", now available in paperback and digital editions. So grab a comfortable chair and share a bit of laughter with her.